Lost River Fire Management Service, Incorporated.

Lost River Fire Management Service, Incorporated, a HUBZone-certified woman-owned small business headquartered in Merrill, Oregon, delivers wildland fire suppression, prescribed burning, hazardous fuels reduction, and all-hazard incident management services to federal land management agencies across the western United States as a prime contractor exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides and competitive full-and-open awards. The company holds multiple socioeconomic certifications—HUBZone, woman-owned small business, small disadvantaged business, and economically disadvantaged women-owned small business—and operates as a Subchapter S corporation for-profit entity.

Lost River's federal footprint centers on the U.S. Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center, with customer concentration heavily skewed toward the Pacific Southwest Region and NIFC. Of 171 total prime awards across the portfolio, the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) anchors 32 awards worth $54.8 million in combined potential value, followed by NIFC with 25 awards worth $43.7 million. The Department of Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region holds 4 awards worth $40.2 million, reflecting recent expansion beyond Forest Service work. The two rankings diverge sharply: by award count, Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) places second with 40 awards worth only $4.6 million, indicating numerous small task orders, while NIFC's 25 awards carry substantially higher value per award. Together, the top five customers account for 81 percent of all awards and 98 percent of combined potential value.

Capability work spans firefighting crew deployment, heavy equipment operations (feller bunchers, mulchers, masticators, road graders, skidders), incident management support, and land stewardship activities. Representative examples include a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Pacific Southwest Region for stewardship services across eight California national forests through October 2032; a $6.8 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with NIFC for up to 41 Type 2-IA wildland firefighting crews through February 2027; and numerous delivery orders including $437.7 million awarded by the Forest Service in September 2025 for fire suppression in Nespelem, Washington, and a $334.8 million delivery order in July 2026 for all-hazard incident management in Yreka, California under the NIFC Type 2-IA crew vehicle.

Lost River holds several critical parent contract vehicles anchoring its delivery-order execution. The National Interagency Fire Center IDIQ (1202SC22T2306) for National Type 2-IA Firefighter Crews carries 101 task orders worth $14.1 million in combined potential value and spans forest service regions nationwide plus FEMA Region 8, reflecting active deployment across emergency response, wildfire suppression, and all-hazard incident work. The NIFC Indefinite Delivery Contract (INP09PC60879) for heavy equipment with water carries 3 task orders worth $20.2 million. Multiple regional Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) Indefinite Delivery Contracts for miscellaneous heavy equipment support Regions 3, 5, and 6, each with ceilings between $250,000 and $500,000 through 2029-2030. The Pacific Southwest stewardship BPA (AG04H1B157327) issued 4 task orders worth $145,000.

Activity grew year over year from 22 awards in 2022 to 29 in 2026, with 171 total awards recorded and a combined potential value of $153.7 million. Obligated dollars total $33.4 million (22 percent of potential value), indicating the majority of the portfolio remains unspent. The award portfolio concentrates in NAICS 541614 (Support Activities for Forestry), accounting for 168 of 171 awards, with PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression codes dominant across 155 awards. Lost River operates exclusively as a prime contractor (100 percent of awards); the source records zero subcontract work.

The source material identifies no subcontracting footprint and no parent prime relationships, positioning Lost River as a sole-operator model focused on direct Forest Service and interagency partnerships rather than prime-sub teaming.

Forestry services, including fire suppression, prescribed fire, fuels management, heavy equipment and chemical application